In our diary: should money for deprived pupils be diverted to management HQ?; Durham county council plans term-time-only pay for teaching assistants; university teacher training under siegeShould money designed to improve education for deprived pupils be diverted into the head office budget of an academy chain? We ask after we discovered that the south London-based Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is taking 5% of the cash it receives via the pupil premium fund for what is described variously on its schools’ websites as “GST management support”, “GST-fee” or “trust strategy”.
Such a central levy appears to be frowned on officially. An Ofsted report [pdf] on the rival E-Act chain final year criticised it for allegedly having deducted pupil premium cash before it reached schools.
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Source: theguardian.com